An effective selection of parents for hybridization requires a plant breeder to consider the genetic variety available germplasm, hence research on diversity were carried out with 20 genotypes chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) at Crop Research Institute.Center-1, School Agriculture, ITM University, Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh), during Rubi season 2022-23. The D2 Twenty examined divergence using statistic...

Single image-NDVI method for early detection of mosaic symptoms in Capsicum annuum
 Mosaics are a symptom disease often found red chilies (Capsicum annuum) and is generally caused by viral infections such as the Tobacco virus. Severe infection can cause stunting significant yield loss. Serological molecular common plant viruses although they time-consuming, relatively inefficient large sam...

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of the general and specific combining abilities (GCA and SCA, respectively) of 15 characteristics and to evaluate the most promising crosses and the reciprocal effect between the hybrids of six parents of the Capsicum annuum species. Six parents, belonging to the Horticultural Germplasm Bank of Centro de Ciências Agrárias of Universidade ...

“Hungariana,” “Beauty Zest,” and “Home Flavor” hot pepper plants (Capsicum annuum L. var. annuum) were grown with an ample or a limited water supply. The fruits of plants in the water deficit treatment were small, had a proportionally heavier placenta and had a higher concentration of capsaicin. The concentration of capsaicin in the placenta of “Beauty Zest” fruits in the water deficit treatmen...

The plant-specific NAC (NAM, ATAF, and CUC) transcription factors have diverse role in development and stress regulation. A new transcript encoding NAC protein, homologous to nam-like protein 4 from Petunia was identified from an ABA-regulated subtractive cDNA library of Capsicum annuum seedling. Here, this homolog (named CaNAC2) from C. annuum was characterized and investigated its role in abi...

The capsaicinoids are a group of compounds produced by chili pepper fruits and are used widely in many fields, especially in medical purposes. The capsaicinoid biosynthetic pathway has not yet been established clearly. To understand more knowledge in biosynthesis of capsaicinoids, we applied RNA-seq for the mixture of placenta and pericarp of pungent pepper (Capsicum frutescens L.). We have ass...

Pathogen-inducible antimicrobial defense-related proteins have emerged as key antibiotic peptides and enzymes involved in disease resistance in plants. A novel antimicrobial protein gene, CaAMP1 (for Capsicum annuum ANTIMICROBIAL PROTEIN1), was isolated from pepper (C. annuum) leaves infected with Xanthomonas campestris pv vesicatoria. Expression of the CaAMP1 gene was strongly induced in peppe...